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Understanding Living-Donor Liver Transplant Surgery

What Is Living Liver Donation?

Who Can Give One?

Ways to Be a Donor

Benefits and Risks for Both Donor and Recipient

What You Need to Know Going In

Steps to Prep for the Operation

What Happens During the Surgery?

What It’s Like to Donate

What It’s Like to Receive One

Life After the Transplant

A Donor's Recovery Timeline

Life on Anti-Rejection Medication

Living-Donor Liver Transplants Save Lives

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Anti-rejection medication blocks your immune system’s response to a new liver. See what life will be like after your transplant.

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